City council

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – History shows Kamloops voters don’t like big changes

September 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

The following excerpt is from a column published Nov. 15, 2008 in The Kamloops Daily News. Ten years later, the situation now isn’t an exact comparison to what it was [Continue]

BEPPLE – Favourite age to become a candidate for City council is the 40s

September 19, 2018 // 3 Comments

IN KAMLOOPS, there are almost equal numbers of people in their 20s, as people in their 30s, 40s, 50s or 60s. There are about 12,000 people who are in their 20s, and similar [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Warning to candidates: prepare for crap and abuse

August 18, 2018 // 2 Comments

IT’S COMMON SPECULATION that at least 30 people will put their names forward for councillor positions plus several for mayor in the upcoming Kamloops civic election. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Letter signed by five City councillors raises questions

July 14, 2018 // 4 Comments

SEVERAL WORDS COME TO MIND with respect to the open letter signed by five City councillors in support of proportional representation. Courageous. Creative. Strange. Setting [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Flag debate – making the world a more complicated place

June 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S TRUE THE WORLD is more complicated than it used to be but that’s because we make it that way. In the old days, a community group [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Bemused and befuddled in the Twilight Zone of local politics

February 13, 2018 // 1 Comment

POLITICIANS! There are weeks when the only thing you can do is give your head a shake and wonder in bemused befuddlement, if we have indeed entered the Twilight Zone of [Continue]